997 <br /> <br />Crumbling is not an instant's Act <br />A fundamental pause <br />Dilapidation's processes <br />Are organized Decays. <br /> <br />'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul <br />A Cuticle of Dust <br />A Borer in the Axis <br />An Elemental Rust— <br /> <br />Ruin is formal—Devil's work <br />Consecutive and slow— <br />Fail in an instant, no man did <br />Slipping—is Crash's law.<br /><br />Emily Dickinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/crumbling-is-not-an-instant-s-act/
